Numerous foam bed or stored in the custom house uma Mentawai Butui, District of South Siberut, Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra. The existence of manufactured goods were very striking compared with other uma content, such as animal skulls and cooking equipment are all made citizens of the Mentawai.
"The bed was for the tourists. They also bought, as well as other items such as bags," said Aman Jazali, sikerei who inhabit the traditional house. Sikerei is a ceremonial leader.
According Jazali, almost every week there is usually only foreign tourists from America and Europe-who stay 1-2 nights in the uma. There are two attractions there: own experience of the exotic Mentawai tribal life and enjoy the crystal clear river stream Butui nan and surrounded by white sand and rocks in front of the uma.
Exoticism la plus Butui is still beautiful journey to achieve it, namely taking pompong-wooden boat with outboard engine, for about four hours from Muara Siberut, the capital district of South Siberut, toward the village of Madobag. From Madobag, about 1.5 hours walking through the forest to get to the uma.
While Muara Siberut can be reached by motor boat ride during the 10-12 hours from Padang, West Sumatra.
The presence of foreign tourists make Jazali earn a decent income for each group usually gave the money before leaving. It also makes few able to speak Indonesian, English, and arithmetic.
"When you stay, tour guides and foreign tourists are often taught me and my family," said an unschooled Jazali school. While her three children now learn in school forests managed by a monk because formal schools are far from Uma.
The presence of foreign tourists also made a number of places in the Mentawai overgrown with luxury resorts, especially in the coastal area that has good waves for surfing. In tourist resorts were enjoying the exotic Mentawai moneyed which consists of 213 islands as well as for surfing.
Waves in the Mentawai Islands surf-by various organizations-is a universal third best after Hawaii and Tahiti.
In Mentawai, surf Nyangnyang usually done on the Island, the Coral body of, Masilok, Botik, and Mainuk. The peak tourist visit there in July and August. At that time the height of waves in the Mentawai reaches 7 meters.
"The island is beautiful. I'll come back here again, "said Andrea, tourists from Italy, about which he visited the Mentawai for one week.
In addition to beautiful, Mentawai also important for conservation. Since 1981, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural (UNESCO) set of Siberut in the Mentawai Islands as one of biosphere reserves so that its existence must be protected and kept away from exploitation.
Keeksotisan Siberut plus the four endemic Mentawai primates, namely simakobu or pig tail monkeys (Simias concolor), Kloss's Gibbon or dwarf gibbon (Hylobates klosii), joja or Mentawai langur (Presbytis potenziani), and monkey Mentawai (Macaca pagensis).
To investigate the wealth of this Mentawai primates, Primate Center University of Gottingen, Germany, in cooperation with the Bogor Institute of Agriculture founded the Siberut Conservation Project.
However, the advantage seemed to have not been able to make the country look more seriously Mentawai. Public facilities such as health and education in areas that are generally rich still dormant. Electricity and roads is very limited.
"Office of Tourism has never come here. If there are tourists who come, so be it, we handle alone, "said Secretary Madobag Matheu Sabaggalek Village.
Further result, residents not only do not have clear guidelines for managing the area. A number of assets in the region also started to run a stranger, like a luxury resort in a number of locations surfing. "Land of the resort is still owned by citizens of the Mentawai. However, because they do not know and do not have the capital to manage it, and then rented out to strangers, "Matheu said.
Matheu also told, there are already Canadian tourist who had offered to provide capital restructuring Kulu Kubuk waterfalls in the region. "The tourist had offered USD 25 million as capital, and its management remains handed over to us. However, residents who have still not allow the land, "Matheu said.
Countries need to manage these natural resources should not fall into foreign hands, including the ability to equip local communities to manage their area. If not, the natural wealth of this pretty Mentawai very likely given their management to foreign hands. If so, what the meaning of the Indonesian presence in the Mentawai?
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